Prey Review: PS4, Xbox One and PC game is one of the best releases of 2017

Prey Review: PS4, Xbox One and PC game is one of the best releases of 2017

PREY is Bethesda and Arkane Studios new sci-fi space thriller released on PS4, Xbox One and PC. After hours of playing this Bioshock-esk shooter we're confident it's one of the best releases of 2017 so far.

It took me a while to get Prey and I think that's down to the fact it feels almost too familiar at first.

This is a sci-fi epic where you are stranded on a space station in an alternative future where the space race never ended.

Having discovered black glob-like killer space aliens it's not long before they take over the entire station.

And that's where you come in, a hero in a spacesuit, tasked with blowing up the hulking craft before the spider-like monsters are able to get back to Earth to destroy all of humanity.

Felt like you've played the one before?

We don't blame you, it is a well trodden storytelling device and feels like something that's been done many times over.

And that feeling kept cropping up early doors while we were playing Prey.

Because the role-play first-person shooter doesn't really offer anything starlingly new in the game space.

The gunplay has been done to death on other titles like Bioshock, Wolfenstein and Duke Nukem.

The role-playing element of the title can be found in similar games like Fallout.

And even the creatures, ironically dubbed Mimics, could be compared in their horror to the Dead Space series.

But once you get accostomed to this, Prey is actually rather brilliant and now we're addicted.

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Prey is an upcoming first-person shooter video game developed by Arkane Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. The game is scheduled for release in 2017 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One

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Firstly the space station that you're exploring (Talos 1) is huge.

You'll spend hours and hours travelling through its many areas as Morgan Yu, learning the layout and trying not to get killed.

And it's a wonderfully colourful place.

There's beauty in the design that harkens back to maker Arkane's previous art style in the Bioshock and Dishonoured series.

Even the darker, scarier rooms have a distinct gleam to them that make this game look fantastic on screen.